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  • RE: Identity and uniqueIdentifier and custom id

    You can only have one declared primary key for a table, which can enforce uniqueness and build a clustered index that will store the data in order by the primary...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Identity and uniqueIdentifier and custom id

    So why construct the ID in the first place instead of just using the user id and datetime entered as the columns of a primary key ( or just an...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Performance Issues with Dynamic SQL

    Yes, and your articles do a wonderful job of outlining the necessary structure and processing requirements. Those are far easier to live with than the requirements around keeping multiple...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Performance Issues with Dynamic SQL

    Why not put everyone in the same DB and key everything on customer?

    If you have a lot of customers, the management overhead of the design you are proposing becomes pretty...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Transaction Log Backup Problem

    Is there a chance that the full backup procedure does an explicit truncate on the log at some point after the backup is taken? It would invalidate the use...


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    David Webb

  • RE: dbo.status?

    What's the name of the database in which the table resides? I'm not familiar with any table in the system databases called "status". If it's not in one of...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Move data from excel (2003- sp3) to sql table (sql server 2008 - sp1)

    Can you copy all the data into a staging table first, and then run whatever validations you need to against that data before moving it into the 'real' table?


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    David Webb

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (5/27/2009)


    There is nothing inherently wrong with this post, but I have to wonder off to my tent in the desert. What do we do as DBA's that...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    You don't need no steeenking special keyboard to write APL.

    http://classic.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=7747


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    David Webb

  • RE: DECIMAL,calculation,truncation

    I'd encourage you to read the BOL information about the FLOAT data type before you change the table. Pay careful attention to the fact that it is an approximate...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I got $10 that says he deleted the table and believes he can recreate it from the views.


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    David Webb

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Yes. I saw it 5 times during the next two weeks and saw some new detail I had missed on the times before. Bought the soundtrack as soon...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Beginners Help

    Sorry, I don't know enough about Access itself to help with that.

    I do know that some adddtional tuning of queries and indexes may be necessary if performance is not as...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Beginners Help

    Please forgive me if this is too elementary, I just don't want to make any assumptions about what you would do as a matter of course.

    1. Regression test against the...


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    David Webb

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Thread Nine from Outer Space?

    or wasn't "thread" the stuff that fell on Pern, destroyed all life it encountered, and was only thwarted by fire breathing dragons?


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    David Webb

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